The Web Bean talk is an introduction to the elegant loosely coupled strongly typed component model that Web Beans introduces. After a brief intro, I will walk through examples to demonstrate how each concept is used in practice. Depending on how advanced the reference implementation is, I might try to make some of these live.

The second talk will cover Hibernate and Scalability. I will co-present with Max Ross from Google (one of the engineers behind Hibernate Shards). We will cover various subjects:

stateless session

how Software as a Service providers scale Hibernate in their platforms